“My heart was pounding through my suit,” Meyers confessed to Fallon. “I think you just can never shake, no matter how many SNLs you do, you remember your first SNL and how terrified you were there, so that fear muscle memory is there. Also, the fact that it’s live, that still matters.”

Fallon agreed, and added that some technology issues backstage didn’t help calm his nerves before his guest appearance. He showed a photocopy of the script he had been given, which was basically a gray piece of paper with barely legible gray print.